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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
Market Share—a Key to Profitability
Marketing Magazine ArticleThe March–April 1974 issue of HBR carried an article that reported on Phases I and II of a project sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Harvard Business School. The basic purpose of the project is to determine the profit impact of market strategies (PIMS). The earlier article established a link between strategic planning […] -
Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleSeveral strategies can help companies let go of outmoded assets. -
Strategic Analysis for More Profitable Acquisitions
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleLess than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […] -
The Trouble I’ve Seen
Crisis management Magazine ArticleAfter nearly 30 years salvaging companies on the brink of disaster, this crisis manager has learned a few things you ought to know. -
Data Scientists Don't Scale
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleGet value from your data with AI, not more PhDs. -
Net Present Value
Finance & Accounting VideoManagers' many decisions about net present value can directly impact the company's valuation. -
Today’s Options for Tomorrow’s Growth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleSince the rise in the use of discounted cash flow techniques, most managers face an increasingly difficult choice in evaluating complex investment decisions. Should they pursue risky projects that offer a below-target rate of return but could create valuable strategic opportunities later? Or should they stick with a less risky and more immediately profitable bet? […] -
How Much Should a Corporation Earn?
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleThis article presents the research findings of a leading U.S. corporation, AT&T, on a series of important economic questions and issues, with an interpretation of the material by one of the company’s top executives. The subject is corporate earnings patterns in different industries, investment trends, the relation of profits and investment to GNP, and other […] -
Don't Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery day, at almost every company, strategy is being hijacked by numbers. Because strategy is abstract, employees often mentally replace it with the...
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HBR 20-Minute Manager Collection (8 Ebooks) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
For today's time-strapped manager or professional, setting aside time to brush up on key management skills is almost impossible. Luckily, Harvard Business... -
Cavendish Cove Cottages
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Sherry Noonan, a senior business student, is considering purchasing Cavendish Cove Cottages, a complex of 19 cottage rental units marketed to visitors.... -
Mary Chia Holdings Limited: Sell or Hold?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Mary Chia Holdings Limited (MCH) was a provider of lifestyle and wellness services for women and men in Singapore and Malaysia. Listed on the Singapore... -
Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value.... -
Debt Policy at UST, Inc., Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details UST, Inc. is a very profitable smokeless tobacco firm with low debt compared to other firms in the tobacco industry. The setting for the case is UST's... -
Perform Cost/Benefit Analysis, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting ToolYou're considering investing resources to explore a new business opportunity. Discover how to use cost-benefit analysis to determine whether-and how well-your... -
Diamond Foods, Inc. (B)
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Restructuring at Neiman Marcus Group (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the use of advanced out-of-court restructuring techniques from the perspective of a company facing looming debt maturities and an overleveraged... -
Dating Ring
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the co-founders of Dating Ring, an online dating startup that relied on human matchmakers to arrange dates between its members, were deciding... -
Goldman Sachs and the Big Short: Time to Go Long?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On August 21, 2007, David Viniar, Chief Financial Officer of Goldman Sachs, received an e-mail from a trader in Goldman's Mortgage Department. In the... -
Clarkson Lumber Co., Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The owner of a rapidly growing retail lumber company is considering the financial implications of continued rapid growth. The magnitude of the company's... -
Track Financial Performance, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting ToolWhether you're monitoring an investment you've made or an operational budget you've developed for your group, you need to track the financial performance... -
Advanced Technologies, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer is assessing the financial forecasts and financing plan prepared by the chief financial officer. Continued... -
Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around "power... -
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Captain Michael Davidson of the container ship SS El Faro was determined to make his planned shipping trip on time-but a hurricane was approaching his... -
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
Management Case Study5.00View Details In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking... -
SAPMER: Strategic Growth and Its Financial Implications
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SAPMER SA was a Southern Ocean fishing company started by three Réunion Island entrepreneurs with one ship in 1947. The company grew from an entrepreneurial... -
Intercorporate Equity Investments
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Discusses accounting for intercorporate equity investments and the preparation of consolidated financial statements. -
Improving Enterprise Governance of IT in a Major Airline
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A common and critical dilemma confronting enterprises today is how to ensure that they realize value from their large-scale investments in information... -
Method for Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method"
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a method for valuing high-risk, long-term investments such as those confronting venture capitalists. The method entails forecasting a future...
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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term...